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/fɪˈdɛlɪti/
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/fɪˈdɛləti/
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fɪˈdɛl.ɪ.ti
Noun
Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this.
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the fidelity of the civil servants to their country
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[T]hey ſerve thoſe that hire them, both vvith much courage and great Fidelity; but vvill not engage to ſerve for any determin'd time, and agree upon ſuch Terms, that the next day they may go over to the Enemies of thoſe vvhom they ſerve, if they offer them a greater pay: […]
In the ordinary intercourse of life, fidelity to engagements is a virtue: why? because in the ordinary intercourse of life, among the engagements taken there is not one in a thousand, the execution of which is not beneficial to the community upon the whole.
Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this. Faithfulness or loyalty to one's partner or spouse, including restraint from romantic or sexual relationships with third parties.
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In vvhat other houſe, public or private, can equal ſecurity be found for the fidelity of the married, for the chaſtity of the ſingle, and for the extinction of drunkenneſs, that murderous infatuation, in compariſon of vvhich every thing elſe that goes by the name of vice is virtue?
Often followed by to or towards: faithfulness or loyalty towards a person, a group, one's civic or moral duties, etc.; allegiance; (countable) an instance of this. Faithfulness to God and one's religion.
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Near-synonym: faith
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Wake up from thy rest, thine abode is in Manu. / Let me be entrusted to the fidelity which is yielded to Osiris. / Come, O Râ, Tmu [Atum], be thou adored. Do thy will daily. Grant success in presence of the cycle of the mighty gods.
Accuracy, or exact correspondence, to some given fact or quality; exactness.
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[Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions with any adequate fidelity: but there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of his [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty, which, like Christianity, qualifies the period.
Some of the photographs and drawings, […] were first reproduced by Mr. Cooper on wood by means of photography, and then engraved: by this means almost complete fidelity is ensured.
The closeness of association between an organism and a plant community.
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Chiefly in high fidelity, low fidelity, etc.: the degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input such as an image or sound.
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By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.
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The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures the fidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.
In by one's fidelity, to break fidelity, to give fidelity, etc.: one's pledge or promise to act in good faith; an oath, a word of honour.
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By my fidelity this is not vvell.
Of a person: honesty, trustworthiness; (countable) an instance of this.
Usage- Obsolete
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[O]ure lord Jeſus hymſelfe dooth tetifye vnto vs that we receiue hys body and blood. Ought we to doubte of his fidelitie and testimony?
[T]he Church by her publique reading of the booke of God preacheth only as a vvitneſſe. Novv the principall thing required in a vvitneſſe is fidelitie.
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Having thus cleared the antiquity of Sanchoniathon, and the Phœnician Hiſtory, vve are to next to conſider the fidelity of it. This Sanchoniathon is highly commended for, both by Porphyry, and his Tranſlator into Greek, […]
Noun
accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
the quality of being faithful
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